Locating the Shannawona Fault: Field and geobarometric studies from the Galway Batholith, western Ireland

Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn , Issue 23, 2005, Pages 85-100

  Callaghan, Brian ^a  

^a Task Geoscience Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; FAULT ZONE; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING;

CONNACHT; COUNTY GALWAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALWAY [COUNTY GALWAY]; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 29244469941     PISSN: 07901763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3318/ijes.2005.23.1.85     Document Type: Review

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